It's a permit to purchase, not carry

While the Press-Citizen's coverage of the shooting in North Liberty was mostly good, there has been one large flaw: You haven't clarified enough that Taleb Salameh had a permit to carry when it actually had been a handgun purchase permit.

The names may be similar but these are two very different things.

The response from the Johnson County Sheriff after the shooting corrected this, but some of the letters you've printed on the subject show a lot of people still are under the wrong impression.

Michael Gilson

Iowa City

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It's a permit to purchase, not carry

While the Press-Citizen's coverage of the shooting in North Liberty was mostly good, there has been one large flaw: You haven't clarified enough that Taleb Salameh had a permit to carry when it